Lafayette’s Parish Biscuit Company – Where Warm, Flaky Biscuits Headline

Breakfast may be the most important meal of the day, but Steven Laborde and his team at Parish Biscuit Company have elevated the meal to a divine art form. The menu at the eatery — located in Lafayette’s Oil Center business district — is a fusion of South Louisiana, old Southern, and American culinary influences. Note, the biscuit is the centerpiece, the headliner, the all-star or whichever other words can be used to describe the restaurant’s namesake.

Warm, soft and moist is the simple way to describe the biscuits. Another way to put it … they taste like somebody’s grandma from the previous century prepared them early in the morning before the family woke up.

“That’s exactly what we want you to remember. Your grandmother,” said Laborde.

The 47-year-old has logged three decades in the restaurant business. He led the opening of Bonefish Grill in Metarie, operated Carabba’s in Lafayette and held a key management position at Waitr, a food deliver app.

Eventually, Laborde found himself examining life and what he wanted to do the rest of his.

Breakfast seemed to be a calling.

The Allen biscuit includes a fried boneless pork chop, fried egg, smoked sausage and tasso gravy, green onions and fig preserves

He explained that the Biscuit Company is the result of breakfast-eating engagements with his buddies in Lafayette.

“We would eat breakfast regularly and went to two or three places all the time in Lafayette. I saw how well brunch does in the city on Saturday and Sunday too,” he said.

After some deep thinking and initial business planning, Laborde pitched a restaurant concept to his eventual partner, Andrew Ahrens. After they decided to move forward with more planning, Laborde started working with Chef Mike Richard. The two spent nine months creating recipes and the restaurant theme on Laborde’s dining room table.

On September 12, 2023, Parish Biscuit Company opened.

Be warned, lines are known to develop outside the restaurant. People in Acadiana know good food and are willing to be patient for what the Laborde team prepares daily.

Buttermilk biscuits are the starting point. You can order one biscuit with honey butter (scratch recipe from Laborde and Richard).

Other breakfast biscuits on the menu include the Vermilion (biscuit, fried egg, American cheese and a choice of sausage patty or bacon), Saint Charles (buttermilk biscuit, fried alligator, sauce, lettuce, tomato and pickles) or the Lafayette (buttermilk biscuit, fried boudin patty and creole mustard aioli).

Southern-inspired menu items include shrimp and grits, fried catfish and grits, chicken and waffles and grits and grillades.

Laborde’s wife Kristin is from Alabama and swears that the dishes prepared will fulfill anyone’s hankering for food and flavors that will satisfy the soul.

“When they were working on the menu, our kids and [I] taste tested. It is good food, and we love it and are happy others feel the same way,” she said.

Try This

1 | Zydeco Green Tomatoes

A Southern specialty amped up with Acadiana know-how. What could go wrong when pairing fried green tomatoes, crawfish étouffée, fried crawfish tails and green onions? Absolutely nothing.

2 | Allen

Somebody ought to give an award to the Laborde team for this culinary creation. Dig this biscuit with a fried boneless pork chop, fried egg, smoked sausage and tasso gravy, green onions and fig preserves. Lawd have mercy … this is so delicious!

3 | Redfish Taco

Southern food staples headline the Parish Biscuit Company menu. Lo and behold, the team serves grilled redfish, coleslaw, blueberry chipotle sauce and pico de gallo wrapped in a tortilla. Priceless.

Parish Biscuit Company
1120 Coolidge St., Ste. A, Lafayette
337-534-4548
parishbiscuit.co
@parishbiscuitco